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3D Particle Grids and Objects

Words dissolve into sand, a logo catches on fire, and now 3D sequences explode into particles. Form keeps the beautiful organic shapes that you love while adding amazing 3D object support and powerful Particular controls. Give your base form endless 3D possibilities by importing OBJ models, OBJ sequences or starting with our professionally designed presets.

Highlights

Immortal Particle Grids and 3D Objects

Form particles live forever, giving you precise control over their behavior.

Audio-Driven & Organic Effects

Create a grid of particles that can be used for organic, flowing effects. Use Audio to drive particle animation.

Animated 3D Models

Load 3D models or animated 3D sequences in the OBJ format.

FEATURES

Designer (NEW)

Creating particle grids is easier than ever before in the new Designer. Add adjustable blocks with preset settings and styles for emitters, particles and more. Or add complete, customizable particle effects with a single click.The designer gives instant visual feedback, making the building and previewing of effects an intuitive and creative experience.

Fluid Dynamics (NEW)

Create dynamic, swirling effects with new physics options that allows particles to behave as if they are moving through real fluids. Choose from 4 customizable fluidic behaviors.

Dissolve Text and Logos

Trapcode Form makes it easy to dissolve your text and logos like sand blowing away in the wind.

3D Models & Sequences

Bring your motion graphics into a new dimension by using 3D models and animated OBJ sequences as particle grids. Choose from Form’s library of over 60 OBJs, or easily load your own models using the OBJ Loading Panel directly in After Effects or within the Designer.

Sprites and Polygons

Use any image in your composition as a particle by assigning it to a 2D sprite or textured polygon. Form 3 now includes over 270 still and animated sprite images, easily loaded directly within After Effects or in the Designer via the new Sprite Loading Panel.

Audio Reaction

Form’s particles can react to the audio in your After Effects composition. They can be set up to change size, position, opacity, and many other properties in response to any audio source in your comp.

More Control

Get more control over your particle parameters with the new graphing system, updated for Form 3. Animate controls over time for the color, size, opacity, and dispersion of your particles, as well as their fractal and audio reactivity. Draw your curves from scratch, or start with presets and adjust.

3D Camera and Lights

Form uses After Effects’ 3D Camera and Lights so you can fully integrate your particle Effects with your motion graphics and live-action vfx shots.

150+ Presets (NEW)

Hit the ground running with over 150 fully-customizable Designer presets. Form 4 includes over 20 new Designer presets that show off the new fluid features. Explore the library to find beautifully designed effects for creating fluid animations, backgrounds, motion design elements and more. Save your own presets, and share them across your facility.

Natural Shading

The new Shadowlet rendering allows particles to cast shadows onto other particles. Combined with dynamic light falloff support for After Effects lights, your particles and composites look better than ever.

Description

System Requirements

Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.

Apple Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.10 and later

Mac Intel

4 GB of RAM

50 MB of Hard Drive space

Windows

Windows 7

Windows 8

Windows 10

64 bit Processor

4 GB of RAM

50 MB of Hard Drive space

Host Applications

Trapcode Form runs only in After Effects. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on a single computer. Except where noted, the features are the same in all operating systems.

A great companion to any designer

If you've been to an IMAX movie lately, you've seen the power of Form in action. Often times I find that any puzzle I can't solve with Particular is short work in Form (and vice versa!). Despite the learning curve, research and experimentation will soon make you an expert.
With its layer mapping controls I've used Form to illustrate how fluid physics work, for super cool music visualizations, and with Form 2's recent addition of OBJ support, I've started integrating my Cinema 4D workflow right into After Effects.
This plugin is worth every penny!

$199 isn’t a bad price for a particle engine plugin, especially one as feature-rich as this. But what you’re really paying for is the uniqueness of the animations that Form delivers

Trapcode continues to impress with another entry in its lineup of ultra-high quality software for After Effects. Even though Form has a steep learning curve, it does have 61 very useful presets that don’t need a lot of tweaking to produce rich organic animations that are truly stunning. In an industry where everything seems to have a “been there done that” look, it’s refreshing to see a plugin that provides such unique results.

Change Log

What's new in Trapcode From 4.1?

Text Forms – Use text as a base form, speeding up the creation process dramatically from previous versions. No precomping required. Also includes options for write-on effects that control where along the text paths particles are created.

Mask Forms – Use masks as a base form, making it simple to create forms with the After Effects mask/path tools, or to use parts of an image as the source of the form. No precomping required. Create write-on effects by controlling the reveal of particles along mask paths.

Updated Designer – New in this version is support for text and masks, making it possible to create text and mask path-based effects directly in the Designer.

Shadowlet particle type matching – Match the shadowlet shape to the particle type for shadowing that matches the source. Previously, all shadowlets were circular.

Shadowlet softness -Control the softness of your shadowlet.

Presets – 21 new presets have been added to give you instant results and help you get started with new features. There are now over 170 presets included with Particular.

What's newi n Trapcode Form 4.0.1?

Performance improvement with fluid dynamics enabled on two or more instances in the same composite

Improves playback and duration responsiveness in Designer

Improves Shadowlet fidelity between CPU and GPU rendering

Improves accuracy of Split Clip Loop time sampling in Particular

Resolves curves not animating properly with fluid dynamics in Form

Minor experience and performance improvements

What's newi n Trapcode Form 4?

FLUID DYNAMICS – Create dynamic, swirling effects with the new Dynamic Fluids physics engine, which allows particles to behave as if they are moving through real fluids. Choose from 4 customizable fluidic behaviors.

DESIGNER – Creating particle grids is easier than ever before in the new Designer. Add adjustable blocks with preset settings and styles for forms, particles and more. Or add complete, customizable particle effects with a single click.The designer gives instant visual feedback, making the building and previewing of effects an intuitive and creative experience.

150+ PRESETS – Hit the ground running with over 150 fully-customizable Designer presets. Form 4 includes over 20 new Designer presets that show off the new fluid features. Explore the library to find beautifully designed effects for creating fluid animations, backgrounds, motion design elements and more. Save your own presets, and share them across your facility.

What's new in Trapcode Form 3.1.3?

Update for Mojave compatibility.

What's new in Trapcode Form 3.1.2

Resolved an installation issue.

What's new in Trapcode Form 3.1.1?

Resolves some minor GPU rendering disparities between CPU/GPU/GPU

Improves the user experience of adding/removing points in the Curves graph.

Minor stability and performance improvements.

What's new in Trapcode Form 3.1?

GPU-Accelerated - up to 2X faster

Updated Designer for building effects visually

Multiple particle systems (Forms) in the same 3D Space

Expanded library of over 60 3D Objects/Models

270 New Sprites and Polygons

Powerful parameter graphing keyframeable system

Over 130 Presets for fast motion graphics creation

What's new in Trapcode Form 3.0.3?

The Form Designer now properly supports Hi-DPI displays (5k and 4k Monitors)

OBJ Sequences will now animate in the Form Designer.

What's new in Trapcode Form 3.0.2?

New features

OBJ Sequences can be added via the Designer or OBJ panel

OBJs can now use layer maps

Other UX enhancements

Bug Fixes

Z position no longer changes when the resolution of the preview changes

What's new in Trapcode Form 3?

Designer (NEW) - Creating particle grids is easier than ever before in the new Designer. Add adjustable blocks with preset settings and styles for emitters, particles and more. Or add complete, customizable particle effects with a single click.The designer gives instant visual feedback, making the building and previewing of effects an intuitive and creative experience.

3D Models (NEW) - Bring your motion graphics into a new dimension by using 3D models and animated OBJ sequences as particle grids. Choose from Form’s newly-expanded library of over 60 OBJs, or easily load your own models using the new OBJ Loading Panel directly in After Effects or within the Designer.

Sprites and Polygons (NEW) - Use any image in your composition as a particle by assigning it to a 2D sprite or textured polygon. Form 3 now includes over 270 still and animated sprite images, easily loaded directly within After Effects or in the Designer via the new Sprite Loading Panel.

More Control (NEW) - Get more control over your particle parameters with the new graphing system, updated for Form 3. Animate controls over time for the color, size, opacity, and dispersion of your particles, as well as their fractal and audio reactivity. Draw your curves from scratch, or start with presets and adjust.

70+ Presets (NEW) - Form 3 Includes over 70 new fully-customizable Designer presets for creating backgrounds and motion design elements.

What's new in Trapcode Form 2.2?

Updated UI graphs, “Color over Life” and “Size over Life” in Trapcode Form now match those found in Particular 2.5

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